I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.

There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.